On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:02:16 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > Rustom Mody writes:
> > * ... which summarizes my objection in this thread: > Your long post references many things. Which is the "which" to which you > refer? What is it you're referring to that summarises your position? Text : C++ has pretentious abstractions that invariably leak* Footnote: * ... which summarizes my objection in this thread: Python's 'is' leaks the machine abstraction. 'id' does it legitimately (somewhat), 'is' does it illegitimately Not sure whats not clear: "is" in python leaks machine representations into the otherwise clean HLL abstraction in python like <dozens of things> in C++ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
